A total of 15 Nigerian small business owners stand a chance to get N5 million each in the N75Million equity-free fund or Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) in Nigeria. Already, application has been opened for the ₦75 Million equity-free fund through Google’s Hustle Academy SMB Fund. This will go...
A multinational technology company, Google on Wednesday announced new updates to Bard, its experimental, conversational, Artificial Intelligence (AI) chat service. Google’s Communication and Public Relations Manager, West Africa, Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade, said in a statement that the company was rolling out “a most capable model of the Bard.” He said...
Google on Tuesday unveiled the “Google for Startups Accelerator: AI First”, an initiative aimed at supporting African startups looking to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to solve local challenges. Folarin Aiyegbusi, Head, Startup Ecosystem, Africa said in a statement that this program recognises the transformative role that AI is playing across...
President Bola Tinubu has said that the Federal Government would leverage digital technology to create Nigeria’s desired socio-economic progress that was necessary to transform the society. He said this during a meeting with a delegation from Google, West Africa, led by its Director, Olumide Balogun, on Wednesday at...
Vice President, Kashim Shettima, has commended Google’s N1.2 billion grant initiative for the President Tinubu administration’s one million jobs initiative. Shettima made the commendation when he received in audience some executives of Google, a leading global technology company, at the Presidential Villa, on Tuesday in Abuja. According...
The Kaduna State Government and Google on Tuesday announced a partnership to train 5,000 women and girls in data science, artificial intelligence and entrepreneurial application of digital technologies. Google’s Director for West Africa, Olumide Balogun said in a statement that the partnership was a significant move towards promoting...
Google has introduced new features on Google search to help individuals stay in control of their personal information, privacy and online safety. The Communication and Public Relations Manager, West Africa, Google, Mr Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade, said in a statement on Friday that Google is conscious of the online safety ...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has expressed the willingness of the Federal Government of Nigeria to support global tech giant, Google Incorporated, to create one million digital jobs in Nigeria. The President gave the assurance at the State House, Friday evening during the...
A Nigerian, Mr Chianugo Peter, has sought a 150 million dollars compensation from Google and GoDaddy.com over allegations bordering on the shutdown of his YouTube Audio domain name after eight years of promotional and marketing works. Peter, through his lawyer, Emmanuel Ekpenyong of Fred-Young & Evans LP, filed the...
Google on Tuesday announced the expansion of its Flood Hub platform to cover 80 countries worldwide, adding eight new countries in Africa. Yossi Mattias, Vice President Engineering & Research and Crisis Response Lead, said in a statement that 23 African countries were on its Flood Hub. Mattias said this...
Google says it will unveil a range of programmes and activities to celebrate Africa’s diverse cultural heritage and provide opportunities for people all over the world to mark 2023 Africa Day. Google Nigeria, Interim Lead, Olumide Balogun in a statement on Wednesday said Africa Day marks the founding of...
Google has announced three new initiatives aimed at empowering women entrepreneurs in Africa and providing them with the resources to succeed. Mr Folarin Aiayegbusi, Head of Startup Ecosystem, Africa, said that the initiative was the organisation’s way to celebrate 2023 International Women’s Day. Aiayegbusi said in a statement that...
Nitin Gajria, Managing Director, Google Africa, on Tuesday said that the search interest on private browsing increased in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa. Gajria said at the Africa Ads Privacy immersion for press in Lagos that search in private browsing increased in Kenya by 110 per cent, Nigeria by...
Search engine giant Google is wishing everyone a Happy New Year 2023 and it is celebrating it with a special animated doodle on its website. To celebrate the new year, upon visiting Google website, the doodle shows 2022 turning into 2023 as firecrackers burst around Google’s logo. Upon clicking...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy of Nigeria, Professor Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, had meetings at Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (Space X) headquarters in Hawthorne, California, as well as a meeting at the World Bank Headquarters and another meeting with Google Corporation in...
Google has announced six new features and developments on search to help people gather and explore information in new ways. Mr Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade, the Head, Communication, West Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, said this in a statement on Thursday in Lagos. Kola-Ogunlade said that the new features leveraging machine learning...
The Federal Government of Nigeria on Thursday asked Google to block terrorists organisations from YouTube. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, made the request when a team from Google visited him in Abuja. “We want Google to look into how to tackle the use of private and...
The Federal Government says major tech giants.including Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube have shown interest in investing and exploring business opportunities in Nigeria’s digital space. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed said this on Saturday in Epe, Lagos state at the 49th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of...
Google on Thursday highlighted the top trending personalities, music, movies, high-profile deaths as well as sports that trended in the first half of 2022. Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade, Communications and Public Relations Manager, Google West Africa, said in a statement that the first half of 2020 had been eventful with high-profile...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Google on Tuesday announced that 60 eligible black-founded start-ups would receive a total of four million dollars in the second cohort of Google for Start-up Black Founders Fund (BFF) Google’s Head of Start-up Ecosystem, Africa, Mr Folarin Aiyegbusi, made this known in a statement...